In 2019 the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Philology celebrates the 100th anniversary of its establishment. This jubilee will be marked by an international conference attended by several dozen eminent scholars from all over the world.

The exhibition ‘Oriental treasures of the Jagiellonian Library’, organised to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Jagiellonian University Institute of Oriental Studies, is part of an international conference entitled ‘Languages and Civilisations. Oriental Studies in Cracow 1919–2019’.

The aim of the exhibition is to present to a larger audience a number of devices that historically have been used to facilitate arithmetic calculations. The official opening will take place on 2 September at 4.00 p.m. The exhibition will be available to visitor during the standard working hours of the Museum. Admission is free.

The board exhibition presented in the Professors’ Garden shows the fate of the Jagiellonian University professors during the World War II from the moment of their arrest in Kraków to their release or death in German concentration camps. The text on the boards is accompanied by photographs of the professors, graphics, paintings, and mementos of some of the prisoners. The display commemorates the time of brutal destruction of the Polish academia and culture pays tribute to its victims.

2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). To celebrate this occasion, a number of events are held throughout the year at the JU Astronomical Observatory.

The conference ‘The Many Faces of Personality Disorder’ is an event organised by the newly established multi- and interdisciplinary Understanding Personality Disorders Network affiliated both with the Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care (St Catherine’s College, Oxford) and the Jagiellonian University’s Institute of Applied Psychology (Kraków).

The JU Faculty of Management and Social Communication invites you to attend a lecture by Mats Alvesson, a distinguished researcher of modern organisations, whose interests include critical theory, gender, power and leadership issues in organisations, identity and image of organisations as well as their organisational culture and symbolism.

The topic of the conference relates to the latest EU Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive) and its implementation into national laws.

The Department of Mediterranean Politics and Culture of the JU Institute of European Studies and the Department of Political and Juridical Sciences and International Studies at the University of Padua are organising an international conference devoted to European nationalist parties and groups after 1945 in a broader, comparative perspective, with a particular focus on their attitude towards the idea of ​​a united Europe.

The annual international Cracow Conference of Psychology and Law (CCPL) is the largest Polish meeting devoted to forensic psychology. Each year, the organisers invite prominent experts whose research is related to issues at the intersection of psychology, psychiatry and law.

The Inorganic Molecular Material Group of the JU Faculty of Chemistry invites you to attend the 4th edition of the International Conference on Functional Molecular Materials FUNMAT2019, which will be held on 25–27 November 2019.

In 2020, the 2nd International Tischner Congress will be organised to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Józef Tischner’s death. During the 1st International Tischner Congress in 2011, his legacy was observed through a prism of ‘Truth and Goodness’ – this time the main topic will be the ‘Faces of Freedom’. When talking about man and social issues, the question of freedom is, after all, of fundamental importance.